J. J. Thomson
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Sir Joseph John Thomson was a British physicist. He received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of
Thomson in 1915
Title page On the Chemical Combination of Gases by Joseph John Thomson 1856 1940
First page to Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism (1893)
Plaque commemorating Thomson's discovery of the electron outside the old Cavendish Laboratory.
Ernest Rutherford
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Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, was a New Zealand physicist and chemist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. He has been described as "the father of n
J. J. Thomson
…and led to the development of the mass spectrograph. Thomson was an influential teacher, and seven of his students went on to win Nobel Prizes: Ernest Rutherford (Chemistry 1908), Lawrence Bragg (Physics 1915), Charles Barkla (Physics 1917), Francis Aston (Chemistry 1922), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (Physics…
Rutherford, c. 1920s
Rutherford in 1892
A statue of a young Ernest Rutherford at his memorial in Brightwater, New Zealand.